101 Things to Do When You Are Financially Free
Have you ever thought about what you would want to do after you reach financial freedom?
Becoming financially free is no easy task and it will require hard work. However, having a dream will help keep you motivated and committed to your journey.
I thought it would be fun to compile a list of things you can do when you become financially free. The possibilities are endless and here are 101 dreams (that I would love to do myself) to get you started if you haven’t thought about it yet:
- Start a charity for something you believe in
- Go on a 1 year humanitarian mission in a 3rd world country
- Visit and explore all 196 countries
- Run for mayor or become a politician
- Purchase a yacht and sail across the Mediterranean
- Donate money towards a health research facility
- Go on an expedition to save endangered animals
- Own a personal jet and fly wherever you want
- Start a beach front business
- Build your dream home over raw acres of land
- Buy a forest and learn survival techniques first hand
- Start a personal finance school for young children
- Own a cabin by the lake and go fishing in your own backyard
- Take professional music lessons from the best
- Bike across the country, stopping by all the major cities
- Start up your own 24/7 restaurant
- Create your own clothing line
- Go on a 6 months ski trip through the Himalaya, Vermont, Alaska & New Zealand
- Surf on the coast of Indonesia, Tahiti, Hawaii & Mexico
- Learn to pilot a helicopter and trek through the mountains in Sweden
- Meet and have dinner with the president or prime minister
- Fund and own an animal shelter
- Collect and trade exquisite paintings
- Purchase a sailboat and go sailboat racing
- Start jogging and run a 500 mile marathon
- Get in shape and become a gym rat
- Fly across the world in a hot air balloon
- Ride all the rollercoasters in the world
- Stay in a 5 star hotel and order lots of room service
- Go scuba diving in the beautiful coast of British Columbia
- Go white water rafting in the Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers in Alaska & the Grand Canyons
- Cross the Great Victoria Desert
- Start a photography blog and take one interesting photo every day for an entire year
- Master Sudoku and join a tournament
- Learn a new language
- Take a cooking class and learn how to make all your favourite meals
- Climb Mount Everest and K2
- Commit to finding your soul mate (if you haven’t already)
- Meet and have dinner with an influential personal development mentor
- Follow the tour of your favourite band
- Pack a bag, throw a coin on a map and fly to the country it landed on
- Become the captain of your own cruise ship
- Go golfing across the world’s best courses
- Whisk off to Italy for pizza on the first date
- Visit the pyramids in Egypt on a camel
- Go on a month long meditation retreat in the mountains
- Cross off all the movies/TV shows/anime on your “to watch list”
- Reconnect with the friends you have lost touch with and have a huge BBQ in your backyard
- Go on a road trip across the United States and Canada
- Embark on a hunt for treasures underwater and on land
- Build or invest in your own hotel
- Take care of and raise over 50 different kind of fishes in your 500 gallon aquarium
- Move to a foreign country for a year
- Train to swim across lake Ontario
- Go on a 1,500 mile hike through Alaska & Yukon
- Learn how to brew beer and get good at it
- Buy a jet pack
- Explore and camp at the great wall of China
- Create a bucket list and cross them off one by one
- Publish a book about personal finance
- Buy a telescope, stargaze and identify 15 constellations
- Visit the most ancient and remote cities in Asia on a private plane
- Travel to a deserted island and try to survive for a week without bringing any food or water
- Build a go kart track in your home
- Go on one date per week for an entire year (for singles only)
- Earn a black belt in a martial art
- Party with a celebrity
- Go on a road trip through route 66
- Start your own formula one racing team
- Go swimming with sharks
- Become a motivational speaker
- Invent the first flying car
- Take some acting classes and be an extra on your favourite TV show
- Build your own skyscraper as the headquarters of your finance endeavours with your office being the entire top floor
- Enroll in a high stake poker tournament
- Volunteer full time for 6 months at a hospital
- Bungee jump in every continent
- License a private booth with a full food and drink service at your favourite sport team’s stadium
- Trek through the Sagano Bamboo Forest in Japan
- Conquer your fears (insects, heights, snakes,etc.)
- Cross country ski to the South Pole
- Go on a 3 month safari trip in Africa
- Write a review for 5000 restaurants on Yelp
- Purchase your own mini island and getaway whenever you feel like it
- Build an underground bunker in case of a zombie apocalypse
- Purchase your dream classic car
- See the northern lights in 5 different countries (Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland & Canada)
- Train for and cycle the tour de France
- Go on a technology detox for 3 months
- Embark on a 10,000 mile Kayak trip in Sydney, Australia
- Visit all 50 states and take a picture at the borders
- Make a new friend in each continent
- Skydive in 10 different countries (Switzerland, Nepal, New Zealand, Italy, Hawaii…)
- Explore and survive the Antarctica
- Learn to appreciate wine and collect the best in your 300 square foot cellar basement
- Visit 5 different volcanoes across the world
- Build a park over 10 acres of land and name if after yourself
- Form an entourage
- Become a vigilante with a top secret base
- Don’t quit your day job (only if you love what you are doing)
- DO NOTHING, SIT AT HOME AND WATCH SOAP OPERAS!
To be honest, I never thought I could get to 101! What are some of the things you would love to do when you reach financial freedom?
12 Responses to “101 Things to Do When You Are Financially Free”
We’re planning to be FI in our forties, but Simple Cheap Dad might keep working if he likes it. So we’ve come up with lists like this in the past too. Currently taking sabbaticals to travel are high on our list.
Reading through the list it hit me that a lot of these things could be done without being financially free. No reason you can’t swim Lake Ontario on your summer holidays. Go for it!
I guess this is more of a bucket list and a lot on the list don’t require financial freedom! But it does require time and as someone who works 50 hours a week, time is something I do not have. These are the things I would love to do when I free up my time. It will take me a while to get back into shape before tackling lake Ontario. If I just go now, I will run out of energy in the middle and drown! 🙂
Wow, so many things to do. I would probably read more books. And maybe do some more traveling so I can do some pleasure reading haha.
Nothing like a nice book on the beach with some pretty ladies eh? 🙂
Wow that’s a lot of things to do. I’d love to go on a 6 months ski trip through the Himalaya, Vermont, Alaska & New Zealand. Explore and survive the Antarctica would be cool too.
The ski trip is definitely higher up on my list of things to do! Until then, maybe i’ll start somewhere closer to home and give Whistler a visit first.
Nice list….and that last one is just depressing lol. Oh the possibilities!!…I just spent the last few minutes day dreaming. Thanks for that.
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Lol! It took an entire day of day dreaming to come up with the list. It was fun. Glad you enjoyed it. The last one was my favourite by the way!
Hi jeff
Great 101 lists to do there.
It just shows that one has so many things to do life after FI isn’t it. Some of those things like dinner with the president may be out on my list but definitely setting up a finance school to teach the young are high on my priority list.
I am 5 years more into FI amd I am extremely excited just by counting down the days. Its hard work time baby!!
Hi B! You’ve progressed very far and financial independence isn’t very far off. The last few steps are usually the hardest!! Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading your progress!
Start a beach front business, I’ve just gotten back from Puerto Rico. I saw a lot of American retirees and young American giving tours and open a shop on the island, it might not be a bad idea at all. 🙂
We biked 20km on vieques, but I’m not sure about cross country bike, as many planning has to take place.
Hi Vivanne! Yup I’ve seen lots of cool beach front businesses. A surf shop, I bar or restaurant all sounds interesting to me.
A bike across the country will take a long time and lots of planning but doable. I plan to bike across Canada one day. 🙂